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I believe I correctly dd'ed a minimal cd onto a usb flash (aka thumb) |
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drive. |
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I set the boot order on my new system (dell 7450) to have the usb |
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storage device first. Sure enough I get the isolinux prompt and the |
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kernel is loaded. |
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However after asking for the keymap (I just hit enter) |
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it types "looking for the cdrom". There is no cdrom. |
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It then tries to mount media /dev/sda[123] (which are dell and windows |
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partitions). When this fails it announces "no bootable medium found" |
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I tried adding the doscsi option, no change. |
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What did I do wrong? |
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thanks in advance, |
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allan |
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PS I did buy an external usb cdrom player and can dd the minimal cd to a |
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blank media. However, I thought that I can install linux from a usb |
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stick without a CD at all. |
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